The smoking one's are just another form of PSA (public service announcement). It's "selling" the idea to not smoke. (I hate those truth.com commercials with a passion however, but no I do not smoke).

The ones that bug me are the, "We don't make the [x] we make the [x] [y]'er" commercials for plastic. Does their job really leave them that unfufilled that they have to affirm to the world that they're doing something? I know what plastic is. I know that it's used in various products. Becuase it lends itself to those products.

Or, do they think they're manufacturers out there thinking, "We need something that has more give then wood, is lighter and cheaper than metal, and gives that nice plasticy feel. I wish there was some kind of thing like that that we could make this [x] out of."

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